The authors show how consumers, business, the Federal Reserve, and government take into account what's going on around them to make critical decisions like buying new products, building new factories, changing interest rates, or setting budget goals. The book provides a clear roadmap to understanding the whole story behind the global economy.

2014

Level: mittel

Big Picture Economics

Joel Naroff, Ron Scherer

John Wiley & Sons

As the world's energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a global struggle over who controls the sector--and for what purposes--is intensifying. The question of "green capitalism" is now unavoidable, for capitalist planners and anti-capitalist struggles alike.

2010

Level: mittel

Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution

Kolya Abramsky

AK Press

Mainstream economics was founded on many strong assumptions. Institutions and politics were treated as irrelevant, government as exogenous, social norms as epiphenomena. As an initial gambit this was fine. But as the horizons of economic inquiry have broadened, these assumptions have becomehindrances rather than aids.

2003

Level: mittel

Prelude to Political Economy

Kaushik Basu

Oxford University Press

This book is designed for a one-semester or two-semester course in international economics, primarily targeting non-economics majors and programs in business, international relations, public policy, and development studies. It has been written to make international economics accessible to wide student and professional audiences.

2011

Level: mittel

An Introduction to International Economics

Kenneth A. Reinert

Cambridge University Press

"First published more than a decade ago, Globalizing Capital has remained an indispensable part of economic literature. This classic book emphasizes the importance of the international monetary system for understanding the international economy. The second edition, published in October 2008, has consistently appeared on syllabuses since its release

2019

Level: mittel

Globalizing Capital

Barry Eichengreen

Princeton University Press

From Marketisation to Armed Conflict Since 1991 nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil with the Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critical moments Now its borders are threatened and the civil unrest and armed conflict continue to destabilise the country In order to understand these dramatic …

2018

Level: mittel

Ukraine and the Empire of Capital

Yuliya Yurchenko

Pluto Press